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Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) has been interested in contentious social and political issues, including various identity constructs such as minority, class, gender, and national identity. The bulk of research has attended to these issues by applying a range of theoretical approaches (socio-cognitive, socio-cultural, and socio-historical) as well as analytical categories (methods). Some studies within the hard core of CDA have concentrated on discourse as manifested in communication at the interpersonal level, 1 or taken a triangulatory approach in their data sources: combining bottom up language-use employing focus groups and interviews, along with top-down language-use using political communication. However, media discourses, as explicit discursive power sources in modern society, have attained considerable attention in CDA.